Today my dear followers went from being a fun and easy day to a "long but fun towards the end" day. At 6:40am Mr. L and I awoke from our slumber. The offender of sleep being the telephone. It was a school wanting to know if I could come in and teach PE today. Now for those of you who don't know I live 30 minutes from this school. They start at 8am and I have to get there before the bell rings because this PE teacher has a class right at 8am. Those who are doing the math have figured out that I now have around 40 minutes (if I want 10 minutes to prep for a full day of classes) to get read, pack a lunch and eat breakfast. Despite the crazy short notice I except. After all, it is PE. I don't have to look nice!
So I somehow make it there with 20 minutes to read my sub notes (thanks to Mr. L for packing my lunch and making me coffee and breakfast!) I start to read my notes. I notice one thing. There are no times listed on my notes. This is the second time I have subbed for this school. Sigh. Guess I'll just skip drinking water for the rest of the day since I have no idea when kids will be coming. Oh and teachers better not expect me to send them kids. Thanks guy!
Well my friends I am not the greatest PE teacher. Today was the first time I had to send a kid to the principal. He just flat out refused to listen. I sat him out twice. Then when he was being waaaay to rough with a girl, I lost my patients. I told him to leave the game and run five laps. He kicked a cone across the court, called me some names and began to walk. I told him that I said the word RUN. Maybe I was being a little too picky but this kid needed to burn off some energy. He did run for a little but then he sat down and started to read a magazine. (OK! I'm not stressing over this kid while I have everyone else armed with dodge balls.) So I called the secretary and had the young man removed. Sad day. I felt so bad about not being able to get this kid to play nice with others, that I found his teacher at lunch. She told me that I shouldn't feel bad. She said she does it all the time and that I did what I was suppose to do. I guess he has some issues with his anger and if you let him stick around he can get pretty bad in a hurry. All I can think is how sad it is that that young man struggles so much. I am thankful that the staff understands him so well.
I have nothing but respect for PE teachers and today just makes me respect them more. PE teachers work so hard and they teach kids more then just how to be physically healthy. Great PE teachers help kids to deal with a lot of emotions and help our students to work well with others. Kudos to you PE teachers! I'll NEVER cut you from my budget!
If you even need to practice teaching PE, I'd love to help ;) Next time I vist we can play tag! FUN!!!
ReplyDeleteP.S. Way to stick to your guns! Not only are you teaching that little boy that he can't act that way, but you also showed those other childern that you should be respected! You ROCK.
Tag would be fun and I bet you would know that only one person should crawl under someone's legs at a time. Cannot count how many times I watched kids ram heads. I didn't feel that awesome about the little boy but I know that kids need boundries. I think I was just sad about his choices. :( Tough part of being a sub is that you can't help kids like this because you are not there long enough.
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